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                                 SENATE AMENDED
        PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 3078, 3184               PRINTER'S NO. 3284

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 2355 Session of 1998


        INTRODUCED BY BARLEY, MARCH 11, 1998

        SENATOR TILGHMAN, APPROPRIATIONS, IN SENATE, AS AMENDED,
           MARCH 24, 1998

                                     AN ACT

     1  Making appropriations AN APPROPRIATION from a restricted revenue  <--
     2     account within the General Fund and from Federal augmentation
     3     funds to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  The following sums, or as much thereof as may be
     7  necessary, are specifically appropriated from the restricted
     8  revenue account within the General Fund and from Federal
     9  augmentation funds to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
    10  to provide for the operation of the commission for the fiscal
    11  year July 1, 1998, to June 30, 1999, for the purposes and in the
    12  amounts shown:
    13                                            Federal          State
    14         (1)  For the salaries, wages                               <--
    15     and all necessary expenses for the
    16     proper operation and administration
    17     of the Pennsylvania Public Utility

     1     Commission, including the chairman
     2     and commissioners and the Bureau of
     3     Safety and Enforcement.
     4             State appropriation........                39,183,000
     5             (i)  The following Federal                             <--
     6         augmentation amounts, or as
     7         much thereof as may be
     8         necessary, are specifically
     9         appropriated to supplement the
    10         sum authorized to be billed to
    11         utilities for the operation of
    12         the commission:
    13                 (A) (1)  "Natural Gas                              <--
    14             Pipeline Safety" - To
    15             enforce the regulations of
    16             the Natural Gas Pipeline
    17             Safety Act.
    18             Federal appropriation......      250,000
    19     Any Federal funds which the
    20  Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
    21  receives pursuant to these
    22  appropriations shall not be reimbursed
    23  to any utility.
    24         (2)  For expanded consumer                                 <--
    25     education expenses related to
    26     electric competition.
    27             State appropriation........                   600,000
    28     Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1998, or
    29  immediately, whichever is later.

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